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Conceptual editorial image of a large Samsung-branded floating data-centre platform operating at sea.

Asia-Pacific Datacenter Trends

Samsung Heavy signs floating data-centre engineering deal

Samsung Heavy and Mousterian have moved their US floating data-centre partnership into engineering, although no site, customer or construction order has been announced.

Aug 5, 2026
Editorial illustration of a network engineer in a data centre reviewing AI traffic links between data centres, cloud regions and enterprise sites

Asia-Pacific National Telecom Trends

Telstra and Teneo warn AI is disrupting network forecasts

Telstra and Teneo executives say operators need new planning assumptions as AI changes where traffic originates, how it moves and when capacity is required.

Aug 5, 2026
Traefik Labs: The Gateway Layer for Cloud-Native Applications

Europe and Middle East Cloud Services

Traefik Labs: The Gateway Layer for Cloud-Native Applications

Traefik Labs emerged from an open-source reverse proxy built for rapidly changing container architecture, then transformed into a company seeking to manage application traffic, APIs, AI, and Model Context Protocol through a single gateway layer. The same position that makes…

Aug 5, 2026
Civic planners examine a layered infrastructure map while a translucent barrier holds back final approval of a conceptual data centre.

North America Datacenter Trends

Rockford’s six-month pause turns a data-centre proposal into a municipal rulebook test

Rockford City Council has approved a six-month moratorium on new data-centre development while the city writes standards for an infrastructure-intensive land use. The draft ordinance is more precise than a simple ban: officials may continue conditional processing, but cannot…

Aug 5, 2026
An anonymous civic committee considers a data-centre model beside a partially open procedural gate, with seven assent lights and one dissent light.

North America Datacenter Trends

Louisville’s 7–1 committee vote creates a procedural gate, not a data-centre ban

Louisville Metro Council’s Planning and Zoning Committee has advanced an amended 180-day data-centre moratorium by seven votes to one. Nothing has paused yet. The measure remains Old Business for the full council’s 13 August agenda, carries no enactment record, and would take…

Aug 5, 2026
A single converted Roman telecom exchange contains a lit compact server room while dim prospective exchange sites recede across the city.

Europe and Middle East National Telecom Trends

FiberCop has one live Rome edge node and a 99-site execution question

FiberCop’s first converted telecom exchange in Rome is now reported live as an edge data centre. The milestone gives physical form to a programme that aims to reuse 100 copper exchanges. It does not make the other 99 sites operational, nor turn the operator’s 10,500-exchange…

Aug 4, 2026
Unbranded accelerator and processor packages sit on a liquid-cooled compute board inside a large data-centre hall.

North America Datacenter Trends

AMD’s $6.7bn data-centre quarter turns the AI forecast into an execution test

AMD’s second-quarter record is less interesting as a victory lap than as a change in the burden of proof. Data Center supplied 58% of company revenue, and its $6.7 billion was more than double the prior-year level. Management now guides to roughly $13 billion for the third…

Aug 4, 2026
Unbranded yellow generator sets and a turbine are assembled beside construction equipment and an unfinished data-centre campus at dusk.

North America Datacenter Trends

Caterpillar’s $20.5bn quarter shows where the data-centre power bottleneck is becoming revenue

Caterpillar’s first quarter above $20 billion did more than set a company record. It exposed one route by which the data-centre buildout reaches the industrial economy: through large generator sets, turbines, construction fleets and the service capacity needed to keep them…

Aug 4, 2026
Three planned data-centre construction sites sit within an Indonesian tropical landscape, linked by power corridors and transparent architectural outlines.

Asia-Pacific Cloud Services Trends

CoreWeave’s 360MW Indonesia plan is a capacity promise with a 2028 test

CoreWeave has chosen Indonesia for its first announced data-centre presence in Asia-Pacific: three facilities carrying 360MW of contracted IT power and an expected 2028 start. The number is strategically large, but its state is equally important. It is not active capacity, and…

Aug 4, 2026
Four data halls at different construction stages stand beside Norwegian hydropower while an abstract AI core passes through layered delivery gates.

Europe and Middle East Cloud Services Trends

The reported Anthropic–Volta deal rests on a Tydal lease with multiple exit tests

Bloomberg identifies Anthropic as the AI lab behind Volta’s announced $10bn strategic partnership. Volta and Bitdeer do not name the lab, so that identity remains reported rather than first-party confirmed. What the first parties do disclose is unusually detailed: a 121MW IT…

Aug 4, 2026
Eight translucent building footprints fade over undeveloped Maryland land while an unmarked conceptual planning folder closes in the foreground.

North America Cloud Services Trends

AWS’s Lusby withdrawal ends one site-plan process, not the data-centre argument

Calvert County says Amazon Data Services, also referred to as AWS, formally withdrew the Conceptual Site Development Plan for the Calvert Technology Center on 4 August. The application had passed acceptance and a first review but had not reached construction. Local reporting…

Aug 4, 2026
Illustration of a secure gateway connecting users and applications to Kubernetes, APIs, AI services and cloud infrastructure.

Europe and Middle East Cloud Services

Traefik Labs: The Gateway Layer of Cloud-Native Applications

Traefik Labs grew from an open-source proxy designed to follow fast-changing container infrastructure into a company seeking to govern application, API, artificial-intelligence and Model Context Protocol traffic through one gateway layer. The same position that makes Traefik…

Aug 4, 2026
A SONiC-labelled network switch connected by blue and grey cables inside a data-centre rack.

Global Institutional

SONiC and the unfinished separation of switch software from hardware

Born inside Microsoft Azure, SONiC turned a hyperscaler’s switching stack into a shared Linux-based platform used across cloud, enterprise and AI networks. Its portability remains conditional: common software still ends at vendor SAI code, proprietary SDKs, platform drivers and…

Aug 4, 2026
Editorial illustration showing a FreeBSD Foundation sign in front of data-centre server racks.

Global Institutional

The FreeBSD Foundation and the operating system behind internet infrastructure

The FreeBSD Foundation turns voluntary funding into engineering, security, hardware, legal and community capacity for an operating system used across networks, storage systems, clouds and commercial appliances. Its central challenge is sustaining that shared technical base when…

Aug 4, 2026
Editorial illustration of optical transport equipment carrying high-capacity fibre connections between several data-centre facilities.

Europe and Middle East Institutional

Ekinops and the economics of carrying more data through the optical layer

Ekinops began as a specialist in optical transport and became a broader connectivity group through access equipment, software and security acquisitions. Its history makes the French public company a useful test of what “lower cost per bit” really means: coherent transmission can…

Aug 4, 2026
Conceptual aerial illustration of Ishikari’s data-centre cluster with power infrastructure, renewable energy and a panel explaining the new consortium

Asia-Pacific Datacenter Trends

Ishikari City and 11 companies launch data-centre consortium

The new group will coordinate power, communications, disaster planning, and workforce development across Ishikari’s growing data-centre cluster.

Aug 4, 2026
Conceptual aerial view of the Start Campus data-centre site in Sines, with coastal infrastructure, wind turbines and a project information sign

Europe and Middle East Datacenter Trends

Start Campus targets 2027 opening for 200MW SIN02

Start Campus plans to open its 200MW SIN02 data centre in 2027, alongside Nscale’s planned deployment of more than 66,000 Rubin GPUs.

Aug 4, 2026
Editorial illustration of engineers reviewing plans beside electrical and cooling systems at a data-centre construction site.  Caption: Editorial illustration representi

Asia-Pacific Datacenter

Sunway Construction wins RM1.02bn Johor data-centre fit-out

Sunway Construction will deliver a RM1.02 billion MEP fit-out for an unnamed US technology company’s data centre in Johor.

Aug 4, 2026
Editorial illustration of protesters holding signs near a construction site representing Meta’s planned Alberta data centre.

North America Datacenter Trends

Dozens protest Meta’s planned Alberta data centre

Local opposition has emerged after Meta secured key permits for its 1GW Alberta data centre, focusing attention on grid use, water and project oversight.

Aug 4, 2026
Editorial illustration of a data centre with cooling equipment, server racks, power lines and wind turbines at sunset.

Global Datacenter Trends

Data centre executives challenge ‘energy guzzler’ label

Industry executives argue that power source, computing output and cooling design give a fuller picture of data-centre resource use.

Aug 4, 2026